Notes

1] "Written in aid of Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, 1883." (author's note) This sonnet now rests on a bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty in the harbour of New York city. Lazarus refers to the Colossus of Rhodes by Chares of Lindus, one of the seven wonders of the world, destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C. Back to Line

8] twin cities: evidently, New York and Brooklyn (which was not consolidated with the other boroughs until 1898). Back to Line